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Microclover adds something a pure grass lawn cannot give itself: a built-in nitrogen supply. Mixed through the turf at a light rate of about 1 to 2g per square metre, roughly a quarter to a half pound ...

While ordinary grass lawns turn straw-brown in a long dry summer, a lawn with clover woven through it stays green with no watering at all. Clover roots reach deeper than grass roots, the plant pulls ...